[Remind-Fans] Remind using 12-hour time?

[R. Wood]

Allegedly, on Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:27:38PM -0500, Paul Pelzl stated:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > J.P. Tuttle wrote:
> >
> >  > Oh.  Support for input in 12-hour would definitely be a useful feature.
> >
> >  Erhmm... really?  How would you write it?
> >
> >  REM AT 1:00pm ...
> >
> >  I guess I could modify the parser to look for a suffix "a..." or
> >  "p..." after a time and adjust appropriately.  I'm used to 24h
> >  clock so it's never been an issue for me. :-)
> 
> I have a mildly negative feeling about this.  If Remind uses *only*
> 24-hour time, then there is never any ambiguity.  If 12-hour times are
> supported, then the user has to be extra careful to always encode the
> AT timespec properly.  You can't even reliably drop the "a..." suffix
> because 12-hour time is not 0-indexed (e.g. 12:30am -> 00:30).
> 
> I'm a programmer, and I realize that this sometimes gives me a twisted
> worldview, but frankly 12-hour time sucks.  And I say this as an
> American who uses 12-hour time in casual use.
> 
> Paul

I tend to agree.  It's easy enough to adapt to 24-hour time I think
(I've done it :-) so why complicate the software with non-essential
requirements?

Just my $0.02,
Raymond
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